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Student perspectives on first year experience initiatives designed for preservice teachers in their first weeks of university study
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posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00 authored by K Larkin, L Rowan, B Garrick, Catherine BeavisCatherine BeavisAll rights reserved.Universities throughout Australia are increasingly investing significant amounts of time and money in efforts to improve the quality of first year students’ experiences and, by extension, increase retention, performance and student satisfaction. This paper reports upon a pilot research project conducted at a Queensland university that investigates student understandings of, and reactions to, a range of initiatives put in place to enhance their "first year experience". The research showed that students had mixed reactions to the initiatives put in place to support them and that staff played a vital role in terms of how students responded to various forms of institutional support. In analysing the results the paper demonstrates the need for ongoing research into how a diverse cohort of students make sense of the first year experience they are offered.
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Journal of university teaching and learning practiceVolume
13Issue
1Article number
7Pagination
1 - 14Publisher
University of WollongongLocation
Wollongong, N.S.W.eISSN
1449-9789Language
engPublication classification
C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal; C Journal articleCopyright notice
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